About the Indian census.

MetaFilter discusses Indira Gandhi on what would have been her 92nd birthday.

The Big Picture has some great photos of the recent Ganesha Chaturthi.

It's not Flickr, but more of a photo agency.

A nice set of photos from a friend of a friend.

Remember at the end of the 80s when all those treaties were signed and everyone agreed to put their nuclear bombs away? Those were nice times.

India needs to seriously crack down on this sort of stuff.

Macintouch has been following this for a while. The xenophobia Americans exhibit when it comes to outsourcing is always amusing. There are plenty of comments to the effect of, \"Indians can\'t speak English, and when they do I can\'t understand them.\"

Corruption is still a very big problem in India it would seem.

This is going to be messy.

Will Smith is some kind of actor come diplomat.

It\'s like the <a href=\"/blog/the-constant-gardener\">Constant Gardener</a> but in India.

Indians are returning to India from overseas.

People in India are getting local carpenters to build them furniture that looks like it is from Ikea.

The other links on the page are interesting as well.

They suspect it is from the 2002 riots.

A <strong>very</strong> interesting read over at Sepia Mutiny on the effects of Pearl Harbour on India. The comments are, for a change, informative to boot!

Dalit is the term those in the untouchables caste have given to themselves, which roughly translates to oppressed (as I understand things). Gandhi used the term Harijan to refer to untouchables, which means Children of God, and worked hard during his life

You might think an article about an American outsourcing his life to India would be offensive, but it isn\'t, it is quite funny.

American\'s are flying to India for surgery because it is cheaper.

I like this idea, though I am not sure it will work. The reason people keep having babies till they have a boy in India is because many important Hindu rituals require you have a male child. (Well there are probably lots of reasons, this would be the rel

In India, there is a big taboo on discussing sex, which is hindering efforts to curb the spread of the disease. I have read that AIDS is on the rise in rural China as well, but that the government keeps these numbers under raps.

It is hilarious how afraid of Indian\'s the American\'s on Slashdot are.

Apparently they won't be putting a stop to lavish weddings in Kashmir.

Let's see how much the government can get done.